Western cyclone., 1887-08-26
KANSAS NEWS.

Carmack, a cOlOred man OF
PeIsf AZ Years OF age, living in South
IbOuL was arrested Wednesday
fcpeAa on q warrant sworn out in
hst a Joseph Reeds court, charging
!o eth rape and incest on his daugh-
brn WIZ; i only 12years old. The girls
tGNnG;s q horrible one, and is related
fof!. in 8 sraight- forward manner
~. orries conviction with it. She
o. the first assault was made on
~ - her inhuman father over year
NV nd has been continued up to the
50 ,. ~+ time. A few weeks ago they
PEE raneated so often the girl left
Aao and took up her residence with
NOlps friends. The father called on
~ Ind used every endeavor and every
q II threats to prevail on her to
I .urn home, and not until this was
, ,ane did the poor girl relate the terri
y aDDs story Of her treatment. DR.. w.
7 lindsay, after a careful examina-
~ q the girl, says she has evidently
"a THRONE frequent and brutal as
a LIS from some one, and the facts
I'm I'm to point to the guilt of the &C
ased man.
n the recent county examination of
..ochers the candidates were required
- write a composition otnot less than
sO1 words on some topic connected
nth the history of Kansas. One of
he candidates took for her subject
hs Lawrence massacre, and detailed
";tb considerable exactness a descrip-
finn of QuantrelI's raid, the shooting
ioTn of unarmed men and innocent
M defenceless women and children.
~ closed the composition with the
statement that Quantrell and his
band had never been punished by and
srording to the laws Of this country,
but she sincerely hoped that they
would receive just retributiOn in
heaven.
The Kansas pacific railroad track
bstween the east and west line of the
tate is 338 yards longer in summer
than in winter, owing to the expand
@force of the heat. Rails expand
under temperature of seventy de-
gees about one yard per mile.
Ayoung man named Charles Deyo,
while cleaning a well fifty feet deep at
Bonita, five miles south o. Olathe Sat-
1rday afternoon, became asphyxiated
With the poisonous gas ct the bottom.
Hehad presence Of mind enough tOget
the bucket and yell for nis assistant
athetop to pull him out. The man
piled fast, out when about half way
there was sudden Jerk at the rope
and a yell from Deyo. Upon looking
down the assistant was Mortified to see
Deyo hanging hea downward by the
bot which had caught fast in the
main that held the bucket. Not dar-
ngto turn the windlass he made it
hSt while he ran a quarter of a mile
G help. When he got back Deyo was
STILL hanging. One of the men slid
down an extra rope and tied Deyo to
he bucket when he was drawn up to
taetop insensible and almost dead.
Dc had been hanging twenty minutes.
Eestoratives were applied and a doc
ior obtained as quickly as possible.
It's thought he will recover.
The Union Pacific engineers arrived
NAcPherson Tuesday and are now
nnnlng line for the extension of that
sOad from Mcpherson south.
At the close of the services at the
songegational church at ElmdaIe
nednesday evening a young man by
he name OF Westley Parker, of Sa-
estha, Kansas, arose and bid the con-
gegatlon goodbye and deliberately
uieW a revolver and shot himself
through the right breast, inficting g.
y wound. Cause, dependency.
ane young man was fairly known
mere. But little hope of his recovery
entertained.
In GREENWOOD county the corn crop
sqglte good, while hay, millett and
SsSrSnam crops are unusually large.
mere Is scarcity of laborers there,
s0d several hundred men could obtain
suployment right now at good wages
'4ring for the crops.
"a y d. Johnson and wife, of Minneap-
~ Nan, were drowned in Pipe creek
" "tednTesday while driving across a ford.
:. - Johnson was a brother Of Associ-
s'e Justice johnson.